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NASA is ready to launch its $14 billion telescope in 2021 in space. This telescope can look 13.8 billion years back and can see how the first planet, star, galaxy and life was formed.

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  NASA Announces New James Webb Space Telescope Target Launch Date NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the clean room at Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, California, in July 2020. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA now is targeting Oct. 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as technical challenges. This decision is based on a recently completed schedule risk assessment of the remaining integration and test activities prior to launch. Previously, Webb was targeted to launch in March 2021. “The perseverance and innovation of the entire Webb Telescope team has enabled us to work through challenging situations we could not have foreseen on our path to launch this unprecedented mission,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “Webb is the world’s most complex space observatory, an
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This is the entrance of an underwater observatory in Lake Zug, Switzerland.

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On the shore of Switzerland’s Lake Zug lies a door.. that takes you down a flight of stairs.. to an underwater observatory where you (apparently) can’t see much. Lake Zug  ( German :  Zugersee ) is a lake in  Central Switzerland , situated between  Lake Lucerne  and  Lake Zurich . It stretches for 14 km between  Arth  and the  Cham - Zug  bay. The  Lorze  as the main feeder river empties its waters into the lake at its northern extremity, but 1 km (0.6 mi) further west issues from the lake to pursue its course towards the  Reuss . Due to this poor feeding, Environmental protection is very important as the lake would suffer long term damage if polluted as the second of the rivers,  Rigiaa , feeds only a marginal amount into the lake at its southern end. Already a great part of the fauna in the deep parts of the lake has been lost. However, if you look at the doorway straight on, it’s eerily reminiscent of the ‘door to the real world’ from the film,  The Truman Show , starring Jim Carrey
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Can we live in water | Scientists at Boston Children's Hospital invented Oxygen filled microparticles that can be injected into the bloodstream, which allows you to liveeven when you can't breathe.

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This syringe, containing particles of oxygen gas mixed with liquid, can potentially save the lives of patients unable to breathe -- like the infant Kheir was unable to save early in his career. John Kheir, MD, is a staff physician and researcher in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital. As reported this week in  Science Translational Medicine , he led a team that created a method for  IV oxygen delivery  — tiny particles filled with oxygen gas, mixed with liquid and injected directly into the blood. In an emergency, the injections could potentially buy clinicians time to start life-saving therapies. The technology was reported by  The Atlantic ,  Popular Science ,  Scientific American ,  Technology Review  and other outlets. It was an ordinary Saturday night in the ICU at Boston Children’s, in the fall of 2006.  One of my patients was a 9-month-old girl who was admitted with pneumonia, and was having trouble breathing. I had gone in to check on her just a few mi
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This is the country Sealand. It has its own government, stamps, passports & even a soccer team. There are 27 official residents.

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  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on WhatsApp Share on Google+ Share by Email By Mike MacEacheran 6 July 2020 This story starts with an email that I will never forget. On a late spring morning in mid-May, Prince Michael of Sealand, leader of a micronation called the Principality of Sealand, messaged me with five clear-cut words: “You can speak to me”. It was a peculiarly short prologue to a barely believable story that would take me on a historical journey through the realms of self-proclaimed kings, territorial claims, historical anomalies and World War Britain. And, as unlikely as it sounds, pirate radio stations and cockle fishing, too. Roy and Joan Bates declared themselves the prince and princess of the Principality of Sealand (Credit: Martyn Goddard/Alamy) Another fact about this exchange: it thrilled me. I’d never received an email from a prince before, and it was unlikely to ever happen again. Of course, I’d come across the story of  Sealand , a tiny p
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In the 1960s, Bell Labs created a picture phone where people could look at each other while talking on the phone.

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It was 50 years ago, on April 20, 1964, and during the subsequent months of the  World's Fair at Flushing Meadow Park  across from the brand-spanking-new Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, that Mr. and Mrs. America got their first chance to make a video telephone call on Bell's Mod I (Model I)  Picturephone . Fair-goers had to wait on line at the Bell Telephone exhibit at the northeast tip of the Fair to hold a 10-minute visual talk with a complete stranger at a similar Picturephone exhibit at Disneyland in California. Can you see me now? Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research arm of the emerging communications giant, began work on creating an actual "picture-phone" device in the 1920s, with director of television research Dr. Herbert Ives at the helm. A prototype was tested in 1927, with Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover transmitting audio  and  video from Washington, DC, to AT&T's New York office. Image: Courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center
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